This is a past event
Please join us for a seminar given by Prof Laurie Pickup on "New mobility in Europe: A road to nowhere, a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven". The seminar will take place on 13th October from 16:00-17:00 in Fraser Noble 185.
Prof Pickup is the International Director for the Vectos Consultancy, based in London, and has an honorary chair of European Transport Policy at the Centre for Transport Research, University of Aberdeen. His career spans more than 40 years, comprising time in government research, academia, and consulting. Laurie provides transport policy advice and evaluation to governments and local and regional authorities, as well as transport operators and the private sector, in both the UK and across Europe, and serves as Chair of the European CIVITAS Forum.
Abstract
This lecture will look at the current trends in mobility and transport policy in Europe, set against the rapid social and lifestyle changes where mobility plays an ever-increasing role. The presentation will highlight how the appetite for mobility continues to grow, and how this is exacerbating the gap between those who have it and those who lack it. High mobility is increasingly a label of social success and low mobility of social failure. New forms of mobility such as sharing and renting will be highlighted. Are these new mobility modes reaching their peak – a feature of a younger millennial generation that will fade as they acquire wealth into their middle age - or do they represent the start of a new wave of future mobility? The growth of ‘new mobility’ as a mix of both both physical and virtual will be highlighted – virtual travel alternatives and in-street, in-vehicle texting – is this a pandemic addiction or a mobility stairway to heaven . Finally, the presentation will assess how ‘new mobility’ trends relate to social well–being – why is it that we have never had it so good and yet never felt so bad?
- Speaker
- Prof Laurie Pickup
- Hosted by
- Centre for Transport Research
- Venue
- Fraser Noble, Room 185